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    • DanielD Offline
      Daniel
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      1. F@#%ing code officials and their assinine interpretations that make no sense!

      2. (since we're in an election cycle) Candidtates who attack their opponents. I want to know why I should vote for you, not why i shouldn't vote for the other candidate.

      3. People who bitch about how awful things are, but have no civic responsibility.

      My avatar is an anachronism.

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      • pbacotP Offline
        pbacot
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        @unknownuser said:

        this time my battery blew and he whole macbook basically needs replacing

        So you got a new battery or a new computer?

        I was going to say (yesterday) here is some of my experiences with Apple. My G4 Mac Powerbook started getting streaks down the screen. I took it in and they sent it off to the factory and then gave me a new intel Mac because they didn't have those screens anymore. Free. but maybe I had Applecare. Then a couple years later the battery started going bad on the Intel machine. They just gave me a new battery (not on Applecare) because it was a "safety issue". In general to fix something they say they can fix anything for under $300. I just take it into one store. Mostly nice service though they aren't all "geniuses" at the "genius bar" IMO. So far so good.

        Today,

        Now after I poured beer on my laptop, the stupid thing is having trouble with some keys. This is good beer too. I take it in they say we'll order a keyboard and put it in here in the store for $151. But after I bring it in again and leave it they call and say "new policy", it must go to the factory for 4 days to two weeks and $300, maybe. I can't give it up that long. So two useless trips to the next town and back later, I'm back to square one.

        The moral is it all evens out. As the Tao says, sometimes things are ahead, sometimes they are behind.

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        • B Offline
          bytor
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          Profiteers & Politicians!

          Here in PA we have the politicians fighting over if and how much to tax the natural gas industry and their newfound wealth in the Marcellus Shale http://www.marcellus-shale.us/

          While the politicians argue back and forth debating what tax rate if any would be fair - the gas companies are ruining the environment of our state by polluting our ground water resources and poisoning the surface sites and any being living in the vicinity of the wells.

          In these desperate financial times - the companies pray on landowners with the promise of profit if they sign over their rights. When that doesn't work they use eminent domain to try and claim property from holdouts for drill sites / pipeline right of ways, and storage facilities. Meanwhile the government is still studying the process to determine it's safety and any impact it may have on the environment.

          Pure profiteering on all sides! 👎

          Find the Cost of Freedom.....

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          • CAntonisC Offline
            CAntonis
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            Where should I start...
            OOOh I know ....
            1.I am from Greece and you all know what is going on the last year( but as far as we know the last 12 years) in this country.Some say there is something wrong about this country, but we all know the opposite:there is nothing right!!!
            2.Jobs are getting worse by the second... we are far from "hour by the hour". Everyone is doing everything and noone anywhere to set any kind of limits.
            3.Noone wants to pay what others performed as a service to them cause they say, they were obligated to do so, for example, although a friend of mine is a designer, he happens to know about setting up a site, so some political chic, that runs for mayors advisor (yes you read it correctly), put online a site for her after she told him to so and agreed to pay him 150 euros.Now she says "He was obligated cause I am running for the people, not for me and everyone will bennefit by me!!!". And wanna hear omething crazy? She believes it!!!
            4.People my age and younger are getting away from Greece cause they dont see a future anymore here!
            ........
            ..........................

            Oh well you get the picture... as might as well stop now cause nothing changes and I may get you bored!!!!

            CAntonis

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            • DanielD Offline
              Daniel
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              THE ALMOST NON-STOP (THIRD WEEK), THROBBING PAIN ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF MY HEAD FOR WHICH THE DOCTORS CANNOT DISCOVER THE CAUSE OR CURE, YET!!!!

              My avatar is an anachronism.

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              • soloS Offline
                solo
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                @unknownuser said:

                THE ALMOST NON-STOP (THIRD WEEK), THROBBING PAIN ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF MY HEAD FOR WHICH THE DOCTORS CANNOT DISCOVER THE CAUSE OR CURE, YET!!!!

                Could it be caused by all the shouting?

                (referring to use of caps)

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                If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                • DanielD Offline
                  Daniel
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                  No. I have a very quiet life. Just frustrated - went to the doctor this morning and still unsure of the cause - he started me on steroids today and they are affecting me, too.

                  My avatar is an anachronism.

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                  • boofredlayB Offline
                    boofredlay
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                    As soon as the VOLS start winning again your headaches will subside.
                    http://www.sportshopdirect.com/Images/ncaa_tennessee.gif

                    Oh, and as far as rants go; I can't stand monkeys. Hate em.

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                    • DanielD Offline
                      Daniel
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                      @unknownuser said:

                      As soon as the VOLS start winning again your headaches will subside.
                      http://www.sportshopdirect.com/Images/ncaa_tennessee.gif

                      Oh, and as far as rants go; I can't stand monkeys. Hate em.

                      LOL...I could care less about the VOLS football...(but don't tell anyone - that's tantamount to blasphemy around here)

                      My avatar is an anachronism.

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                      • StinkieS Offline
                        Stinkie
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                        Just read in the paper today that, while the British government is making cuts all around, Vodafone needn't pay a £6 billion tax debt.

                        WTF!? 😲 If this is indeed true, then why the hell aren't there people being fired for gross misconduct?

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                        • daleD Offline
                          dale
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                          Actually I hate the way cell phone service providers waste my precious minutes by having that slow talking computer voice person mumble on that the "person I have reached is not available, and push 1 to leave a callback number and blah-blah-blah". I would love to know how many minutes are paid for on this wasted diatribe each year.

                          Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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                          • StinkieS Offline
                            Stinkie
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                            Okay, got another one. Years ago, our government sold a handful of publicly owned buildings, in an effort to generate revenue. That sale grossed € 1.3 billion. The government then leased said buildings back, which, between 2001 and 2006 alone (!), cost our Treasury € 1.8 billion. Also ... there's ample proof they didn't sell to the highest bidders, as they rushed the whole thing. 😡

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                            • EscapeArtistE Offline
                              EscapeArtist
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                              @unknownuser said:

                              Free rant space!!!
                              ... politicians and legislators are owned by a handful of Corporations. It became so apparent last year when those corporations collectively squandered away 700 billion dollars and were promptly bailed out.

                              Socialism for the wealthy, free market for the rest of us.

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                              • R Offline
                                Roger
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                                @solo said:

                                I will start...

                                Okay so you have a high end restaurant with a strict dress code clearly displayed in your window. A group of World war 2 veterans decide to frequent your establishment but they are clearly in violation of the dress code as they are wearing shorts, hats and jeans that the dress code does not allow, do you overlook your rules because they are veterans?

                                Well this is an issue that has been on the news in Dallas as a restaurant turned them away, and they made it a huge issue by going to the TV stations to make a scene about it, citing that they were discriminated against as veterans in veteran paraphernalia, and the restaurant being owned by a German (Wolfgang Puck) made the story even more tantalising for the media.

                                WTF!! why does being a veteran make you an untouchable?

                                It should make you untouchable but it doesn't. My car still gets towed in a no parking zone. 😄

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                                • StinkieS Offline
                                  Stinkie
                                  last edited by

                                  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/22/iraq-war-logs-military-leaks

                                  I positively loathe George W. Bush (a.k.a "that evil bastard") and his cronies for lying to the UN, circumventing the Geneva Convention, abducting foreign nationals, detaining people without a trial for years on end, torturing people, and expecting Iraq, after the country had been combed through, and nothing was found, that it should prove it doesn't have any "immediately deployable weapons of mass destruction". Oh, the arrogance. And the cynicism.

                                  Furthermore, I am absolutely repulsed by anyone defending the US' war on terror. "We are protecting ourselves, and our way of life." Seriously? You ain't protecting squat, douchebags, you're attacking, you are the aggressors - there's a difference, and it isn't a subtle one either. Yes, you're entitled to your opinion. But so am I - and I think you deserve a kick in the groin.

                                  Phew! That felt good.

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                                  • kenK Offline
                                    ken
                                    last edited by

                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/22/iraq-war-logs-military-leaks

                                    I positively loathe George W. Bush (a.k.a "that evil bastard") and his cronies for lying to the UN, circumventing the Geneva Convention, abducting foreign nationals, detaining people without a trial for years on end, torturing people, and expecting Iraq, after the country had been combed through, and nothing was found, that it should prove it doesn't have any "immediately deployable weapons of mass destruction". Oh, the arrogance. And the cynicism.

                                    Furthermore, I am absolutely repulsed by anyone defending the US' war on terror. "We are protecting ourselves, and our way of life." Seriously? You ain't protecting squat, douchebags, you're attacking, you are the aggressors - there's a difference, and it isn't a subtle one either. Yes, you're entitled to your opinion. But so am I - and I think you deserve a kick in the groin.

                                    Phew! That felt good.

                                    Stinkie

                                    Go to hell

                                    Ken

                                    Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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                                    • StinkieS Offline
                                      Stinkie
                                      last edited by

                                      Okely dokely, Kenomino!

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                                      • honoluludesktopH Offline
                                        honoluludesktop
                                        last edited by

                                        Hmmm.......I think the purpose here is to be able to say what we don't like. We don't have to agree, and we shouldn't dump on each other.

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                                          remus
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                                          It really pisses me off that the reporter is so short sighted as to try and turn it in to an interview about the accusations levelled at one man when the real questions are around the tens of thousands of civilians who have been killed.

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                                          • Mike LuceyM Offline
                                            Mike Lucey
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                                            I think the comment under says it well, Eleanor Roosevelt famously said, "Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."

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